[Rpm-metadata] A few questions about the 'groups.xml' file

[Tim Lauridsen]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:21 PM, 何焜 <kun.he at cs2c.com.cn> wrote:

>     Q1:Is there any specification or document about the '*groups.xml.[gz]*'
> and '*groups.xml*'. We knew that using createrepo -g groups.xml can
> product '*groups.xml.[gz]' *and add it into the repodata, but who
> products the original '*groups.xml'* group file? And what is the
> specification of the  '*groups.xml*' file?
>
>
> I dont think there is a clear decription of the format anywhere, try
search for comps.xml or look here
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Software_Management_Guide/ch08s03.html


>      Q2: The rpm package have a "group tag" , we can get it by 'rpm -qi'
> command. Also, the '*groups.xml*' used by 'createrepo -g' also make a
> defination of package groups. What the differences between them?
>
> rpm group tags and comps.xml groups are 2 unrelated things, comps.xml
groups is not used by rpm, it is used by package managers like yum and
linux installers like anaconda

basicly comps.xml is just a way to define a group of packagenames there can
be used i kickstart files

Tim
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